“JOURNEY’S END.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 3

“JOURNEY’S END.”

PRODUCER’S FORTUNE,

BUYS TWO THEATRES J

(Inon Our Own Cobbespondest.)

™ LONDON, January 16. Iwo years ago Air Maurico Browne w an unknown actor. This \mk ] w has bought the leases of two West End theatres—the Giobo and the Queen’s—which stand side by side in Shaftesbury £2,000/300. lhC PnCC is Stated t 0

After being school teacher, publisher poet, and playwright, Sir Browne turned actor and ini 1926 wont to America and founded The Clueago Little Theatre. Returning to this country two years ago be made a big hit with his acting in “The unknown Warrior, Then the wheel of fortune turned. Just alter midnight one Sunday the telephone be! rang m )m fiat and a friend told him that he hud just scon a wonderful calTed P <’ > Ti?, l^' lUt i ed^ bj ; » h .° Sta « c Society, Shnrl-ff J Ar e i V ! s End ’ by a 1,1911 named bheniff. Jlr Browne secured a copy qf the ploy and road it in the train going down to Devonshire the following ‘dav He was EQ impressed that h« dashed hack to London and was just in time to secure prodimer UCtl ° n Ughts al>ea(l of Wothcr

THEATRE MANAGEMENT, i u largely due to the profits made by “ Journey’s End ” that now, with the purdjase of tlw Globe and tlie Queen’s theatre, in Shaftesbury avenue, lie has become a power to be reckoned with aD iong Loudon producers. Mi Jlftni'icc Browne lias many new ideas on theatre management. He holds that the theatre should he run on business lines 'like a great store that the actor should have security of tenure in- * ead of being a “casual labour ei "’ and that profit sharing should be introduced ** I’OURTEEN-HOUR days AT HOLLYWOOD.

Colin Cjivc, the original Captain Stanhope of "Journey’s End,” ],«s to London from Hollywood, where he has & n of th tl.e l, ;,tv. lU tl, ° -.J’, 11 £t S i becn , a 'tremendous rush.” be *1 ’ J)avc keen 'working 14 hours a day We got through the film iu four weeks instead of the usual two or three months lh,a my first film of any *?, r K | was . loaned from the play to I again return.” i * , boiough Welsh-Pearson production, in-clud-es in the cast David Manners, a first cousin of Lady Diana Manners, who takes the part of Raleigh. The film is due for release in March.